Maybe you didn't have money. If you know he has money, and he just didn't get you one possibility is he didn't know what to get you, but something is always better than nothing. This is weird, maybe he doesn't care, but we don't know that for a fact.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.